Wood, Anthony, antiquary, born at Oxford, and educated at Merton College, Oxford; was a gentleman of independent means; wrote “History and Antiquities of Oxford University,” which appeared in 1674, and “Athenæ Oxonienses,” which appeared in 1691, being an exact history of all the writers and bishops educated at Oxford from 1500 to 1690 (1632‒1695).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wood, Sir Andrew * Wood, Sir Evelyn